1/35 scale helos

oh man oh man oh man....

Seems I may have a pink team under my care soon. Heh heh heh....

Rolling in hot!

Jon

I still have the Hawk F-84G and an O-2, both chrome and new-in-the-box (1:48 scale)... I had plans for the F-84 until Monogram and Tamiya came out with better ones. I did actually build one, long ago. It must be around here someplace... another Hawk kit that I have squirrelled away is the 1:32 Kaman Huskie, although it's not chrome (thank God!). It has been re-released under the Testors moniker at least twice, IIRC.

That Nichimo kit was purchased back in the late ' 70's, and I haven't seen it around since. YEAH, it's big. It had the option of either a detailed engine or a powered rotor coupled to a non-scale tail rotor gearbox; the kit included the parts for both. If I get the chance I'll dig the kit out tomorrow and fire up the trusty digital. Maybe I can get some images on here for all to see.

FITTER out

Well, I got my Hobbycraft 1/32 OH-6...
YUK!!
Its not irredeemable, but lots of plastic blobs instead of detail. I've already cut the doors off and removed ALL of the flash (Sinkholes, flash, etc...). The fuselage looks like it'll go together ok now. Gonna have quite the scratchbuilding job on the interior. This is gonna be a challenge!

Rolling in Hot!

Jon

Ahhh... too bad, CH; we all get burned sooner or later. If you can find the 1:35 scale DML OH-6A, it's good enough to use as a reference itself. Let me know if you need any info, as I do have the pilot's manual. I WISH I had the maintenance manual, but I only have them for the AH-1S and the UH-1D/H.

You can actually glean a lot of information from Gunslingers WRT that Loach cockpit.

FITTER out

Fitter,

Yeah, I'm looking at Gunslingers now. Good stuff. I've got the manuals for the Cobra, but not for the Loach. Gotta hunt them down. I'm doing a C/1/9 bird and I've gotten a few good reference shots from some of C troop's pilots. The shape of the kit is correct overall, just has a lot of detail issues.... but then again, that's why we do this, right?

Jon

Does anybody have a copy of MRC's AH1-W Supercobra with the gold prototype markings they would be willing to sell?

I'd like to see the AH-64A/D done right in 1:35th scale. Or at least a detail set fo the IMAX kit, but would prefer a correct kit of this helo. I can't wait or Panda's 1:35th Chinook kits to come! Especially the MH-47E SOA helo.

But I do prefer 1:48th scale more than 1:35th.

Just found out that Panda is releasing a 1/35 CH-47 sometime in May.